The Thiamine Requirement of Young Turkey Poults

A CONSIDERABLE amount of work has been done to establish the requirement for thiamine in the dog, rat, pig, and chick. Until now, no attempt has been made to establish the requirement for the turkey poult. The present work was undertaken to fill the gap in this area of knowledge. Light and Cracas (1938) reported a variation of 2 to 8 micrograms daily in three different strains of white rats, and Arnold and Elvehjem (1938a) found that growing rats needed 80 to 100 micrograms per 100 grams of ration for normal growth. Arnold and Elvehjem (1938b), using a ration composed of some natural feedstuffs which had been autoclaved, announced a requirement of 60 to 80 micrograms of crystalline thiamine chloride hydrochloride pen 100 grams of ration in the chick. In the growing pig, Hughes (1940) found a minimum daily requirement of 1 milligram of thiamine per 100 pounds of body …